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Cybercrime costs rose to at least $16 billion globally in 2024, says FBI
The losses—a one-third increase over 2023—were largely driven by...
Swiss insurers Helvetia and Baloise to merge to create top 10 company
The new group, to be called Helvetia Baloise Holding, will become...
Cybersecurity nightmare in Japan can pose global risks
The country produces about 80% of fine chemicals for electronics and dominates the global supply of photoresist, a light-sensitive material that’s used in making semiconductor chips, according to Ulrike Schaede, professor of Japanese Business at the School of Global...
India to have 2.9 mln more people than China by mid-2023, UN estimate shows
The demographic data from the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) “State of World Population Report, 2023” estimates India’s population at 1,428.6 million or 1.4286 billion against 1.4257 billion for China India is on its way to become the world’s most populous...
Elon Musk says he will launch rival to Microsoft-backed ChatGPT
The move came even after Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives called for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI’s newly launched GPT-4, citing potential risks to society SAN FRANCISCO: Billionaire Elon...
Nine more US states join federal lawsuit against Google over ad tech
The government, which filed the ad tech lawsuit in January along with eight states, had argued that Google should be forced to sell its ad manager suite because it illegally abused its dominance of online advertising The Justice Department’s ad tech lawsuit followed a...
U.S. SEC sees decentralized crypto platforms as exchanges, seeks public input
The SEC voted 3-2 to take additional comments from the public after crypto firms criticized the plan as vague and aimed at roping in decentralized finance platforms, also known as DeFi platforms that would otherwise not be subject to the regulator’s oversight...
Political Risk loss frequency surges in 2022,Ukraine war delivers widespread financial losses
Looking to the year ahead, Ukraine heads the list of interview panel members’ top risks for 2023, followed closely by decoupling from China and crisis and new regulations in the EU The 6th annual political risk survey produced by WTW, found that an unprecedented 92%...
Russia threatens West as Turkey seeks grain deal extension
While Russian food and fertilizer exports are not under sweeping Western sanctions, Moscow says restrictions on payments, logistics and insurance industries are a barrier ANKARA: Russia on Friday threatened to bypass the UN-brokered grain deal unless obstacles to its...
Munich Re won’t extend Nord Stream 1 coverage when it expires this year
Sources told Reuters that Allianz and Munich Re were among the European insurers that had previously renewed coverage for the damaged Russian-controlled Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline Munich Re will not proactively extend coverage for the Nord Stream 1 pipeline when it...
After Munich Zurich Insurance quits Net-Zero Insurance Alliance
Zurich’s departure will raise further questions about the workability of voluntary industry associations targeting emissions reductions. While GFANZ, as the biggest finance sector initiative with sub-groups covering insurance to banking, has raised the awareness among...
India & China to account for half of global economic growth in 2023, says IMF chief
The period of slower global economic activity will be prolonged, with the next five years witnessing less than 3 per cent growth, “our lowest medium-term growth forecast since 1990, and well below the average of 3.8 per cent from the past two decades,'' IMF managing...